Good morning
Okay good morning, so I'm here at the
gate or whatever the name is
trying to take a photo here. I'm gonna do this one
I don't know if you can see... focus... there you go
So I'm trying to avoid all the lights that are gonna be very ugly in a black and white photo. Or I don't like them
I'm gonna try to take
just this frame here
we'll see how that works
This is trippy
This is beautiful
With the sunrise there and all these buildings, but I'm not seeing any photos
I only took one so far of the bean with those buildings, but
Other than that, I haven't seen anything. it doesn't mean that there are no photos here to be taken
It's just I've not seen them or something, I don't know
I like to take like simple, clean,
minimalistic shots if you will. I'm not seeing any here unless it's the top of buildings, and that's something that doesn't really excite me
too much and
About the bean itself that is called the cloud gate. I just learned that. I don't see any
Shots at sunrise or at night there because of all the lights that are being reflected
and they have
Extra lights to illuminate the thing. I don't think that would look good in black and white, so what I'm gonna
Do is come back maybe today or tomorrow that is gonna be partly cloudy and take a long exposure of the bean, I think
That during the day. I think that that could be cool
I'm gonna keep walking around here a little bit to see if I find any shots
Yeah, move on to another part of the city later today.
Okay, so I found these trees
I really like that one
Because it's kind of isolated from the other ones and I think it could make a great photo for just the silhouette of that tree
Just like this
It's gonna be loud, but yeah, I'm gonna try this shot, I kind of like it
I just need to wait for when there are no cars because look
Come on person
I think I got it, after 10 minutes waiting here
Okay, so I'm trying to take this... a long exposure of these... I don't you see there. Let me show you
there but there are
There are like three lighthouses there or whatever they are
I like how this one comes from the left that one comes from the right, and then you have that other one there
I think it could be interesting. So this lens is not long enough. Those towers, or lighthouses, or whatever.. they're gonna
be pretty small in the frame, so I'm gonna use the orange filter to make them
Stand out a little bit more. They are white and they are against like blue
Water and sky, so they should be pretty visible in the photo
But I'm gonna really make sure with the orange filter that you can see them when you look at the photo
I'm gonna be using the
Super stopper. This is like a 15-stop ND filter. I'm gonna be here for the next seven minutes
As you can see I'm standing here in front of the camera to block the light from the Sun
So there is no flare or anything
Yeah, seven minutes here
Of course I'm taking another long exposure now. I'm trying to capture those birds
I think they're geese. So this is what I'm trying to do, as you can see the water is gonna
Take like three quarters of the frame and the sky just one quarter of a frame
We have the jetty here with the birds that you can barely see
But yeah believe me there are birds there, and what I like about this jetty is that it's not
Parallel to the horizon as you can see it's lower on the left, higher on the right, and I think that adds some
dynamic stuff to the photo, otherwise it would be a little bit boring
I think that this way it could work
So I'm not using the orange filter this time because the birds are dark
So I don't want to make the water and the sky even darker
So you can still see them. Once again, 15-stop ND filter, f/16. I have the mirror up locked up and
T-mode on the lens and that's all
Now wait
So, I just took this shot of that, I think it's an eagle not really sure but
There you go, I used the orange filter to make that mark of the plane pop in the background now
It's moved to the right, but in my photo it should be more going behind the Eagle
Yeah, we'll see
So I was heading back to the hotel, but I ran into this cool fountain, it's like the Buckingham Fountain
But I've been here for like 20 minutes trying to find a good angle
I've tried from far away like right now
But I don't really like it. I've tried putting a building on top of the fountain. I've tried a close up
but I don't really see it
So I didn't want to give up and I think I found one that I
kind of like I'm still trying to decide if I'm gonna take this photo or not, but
Take a look
Look two birds
Come back to the frame, come back. more birds. birds will help. come on. There you go, left, closer, closer, closer.
Well that was awesome I was not counting on the birds to be in the frame that might have made the photo better
But I'm gonna take another exposure just in case it made it worse
Okay, so I'm back at the hotel, I'm so tired. I woke up really early
I didn't have a good sleep last night
But I think it was a good morning after all, had some troubles at first finding some compositions
but I think I took, I hope, I took good shots
So far in two days, I shot two rolls, which is pretty good for me
I usually shoot, I think, much more than that. I'm trying to be more selective in this trip.
Anyway, I'm gonna take a nap, have lunch later, and then I'll see you guys again for
The evening shooting, I don't know where I'm going, but I'm gonna go somewhere
It is completely overcast which is nice because it's different. Nap has been taken, getting ready to go out, gonna grab a coffee
I'll be right back. I'm gonna leave you with this view
Whoo
Yeah, you got tea. We are ready to go, this time Rachel is coming. We only have two hours and 15 minutes left
So let's do it
So this is the riverwalk
Where you can take a walk along the river, and that's what we're gonna do
Take photos, probably of buildings and rivers and bridges
Yeah